A California Senate committee voted 8-2 this week in favor of Senate Bill 923, the Transgender Inclusive Care Act, which would force all health care providers to promote “gender-affirming care.” The proposed legislation would require health care providers to compel their staff to complete “evidence-based cultural competency training” for the purpose of providing “trans-inclusive” health care to patients who identify as transgender, gender nonconforming, and intersex (TGI). A woman who once identified as a transgender male and lost her singing voice to cross-sex hormones spoke in opposition to the bill, telling the Senate Health Committee “it’s impossible for humans to literally change sex” at the hearing in Sacramento. The woman, a self-described detransitioner who goes by the pseudonym Cat Cattinson to protect herself and her family, told the committee that proposed legislation “would deny health care providers the opportunity to recommend treatments that are in the best interest of the …